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NaNoEdMo update
Editing is still more fun than drafting. What do you know? Whee, edits! Well, obviously, there's going to be the point where I go blind. Hopefully that won't happen for awhile, since I didn't look at it for three months. Some observations: The character arc on the two...
February Stats
Jen does this every month. I figured it'd be fun. Story sales in February: 0 Story submissions in February: 7 Story rejections in February: 6 Script queries in February: 11 Script requests in February: 0 Script rejections in February: 0 Script contest entries in...
Opening lines meme.
Jen has a "post the first line of five works in progress" meme. What the hell, I'll play, although I don't really have five things in progress at the moment. I'll include recent stuff. The Wasicu towers still exist, rising up out of the turf. From "The Last Wasicu."...
It’s almost NaNoEdMo, but…
NaNoEdMo starts in two days. So why am I excited about Script Frenzy instead? I used to love editing and agonize over first drafts. I think NaNoWriMo cured me of the agonizing, so maybe that's part of it. I have no idea what I'm going to do for Script Frenzy, by the...
Cheerleading!
From Jennifer Pelland, a discussion on the importance of having a writing cheerleader. I actually tried to do that with NaNoWriMo on a sikrit friends-only LJ, but no one commented, alas. Maybe I should have mentioned that was my plan. What, my friends aren't all...
It’s away!
I just dropped the hurricane story into the Critters queue. Word count: 10,946. It'll probably grow after Critters is done with it. I also put a warning on the story for "content that may offend some readers and some *@(#&@% swearing." We'll see how upset people...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.